Marco Urso Snaps Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2017 Image with Fujifilm X-T2 and XF 50-140

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image courtesy: Marco Urso
image courtesy: Marco Urso

Fujifilm Goes Wildlife

Back in October, we reported how an image of Peter Delaney won the Wildlife Photographer award in the portraits category.

But there is more.

Also Marco Urso snapped one of the wildlife photographer awards winning images 2017. The picture “Funny Brothers” shows two young bears standing and watching out for some fresh Salmon.

Congratulations, Marco!

Marco’s image is also available for public “People’s Choice Award” voting until February 5th here. So feel free to support his image.

Interesting to note, both images, the ape of Peter Delaney and the bears of Marco Urso, have been taken with the XF50-140, which, according to our huge polls, is your top 2 favorite Fujinon lens for wildlife photography.

XF 50-140mm (save $150): BHphoto, AmazonUS, FocusCamera, Adorama
X-T2 Body (save $100): BHphoto, AmazonUS, Adorama, Focuscamera

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Fujifilm X series camers also…

  • made the cover of the TIME magazine (story here)
  • won the World Photography Arts&Culture Award 2015 (story here)
  • won the First Prize of the World Press Photo Category “Stories (stroy here)
  • made the front page of the Wall Street Journal (story here)
  • were good enough for God’s work (story here)
  • captured America’s most hated man (story here)
  • distracted a French presidential candidate during his interview (story here)
  • won the world wildlife photography award in Portraits category (story here)
  • won the world wildlife photography award (story here)
  • and more…
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Fujifilm Film Simulation Profiles for RawTherapee and Affinity Photo :: Exploring X RAW STUDIO :: Lightroom, CaptureOne, Luminar (X Trans Zone)

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Here we have it… the first X-Trans roundup of 2018.

We are going to take a detailed look at Fuji’s X RAW Studio, there will be film simulation profiles for you to download, discussions if Capture One can really replace Adobe Lightroom and more.

Hope you will find something useful amongst it, and I wish you a great start in your weekend :)

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Fujifilm/Fujinon’s MK Zoom Lens Series Honored in Several Best-Of Lists… Meant for Fujifilm X-H1 :)

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The Fujinon MK zoom lenses (MK18-55mm F2.9 + MK50-130mm T2.9) will soon be available also for Fujifilm X mount.

As we reported already back in July 2017, they were designed without OIS (optical image stabilization), because Fujifilm considers them the perfect companion to the upcoming Fujifilm X-H1, which will feature IBIS (in body image stabilization).

Regarding the Fujifilm X-H1, we have leaked a vast number of specs already, and the latest overview can be found here.

Back to the MK lenses… we have reported over the last months about the several recognitions the MK lenses got, and Fujifilm USA now made a nice summary about all of them, which you can read in the press release below:

PRESS RELEASE

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Concerns with Quality of Fujifilm GF Medium Format Lenses (and Overall Fujifilm Camera/Lenses)… and a Little Ode to Local Stores

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Check Your Lenses… and a Little Ode to My (and Your) Local Store

One of the reasons why I like to buy my gear at the local dealer (instead of ordering online), is that I can always inspect the gear before buying it.

So, when last month I bought the XF10-24 and XF27mm, my dealer opened the boxes, checked if there was any issue such as dust spots inside the lens, and he even checked if the latest firmware for the lenses was installed (it wasn’t, so he updated the lens firmware in store for me… AWESOME!)

So far, with ALL Fujinon lenses I have ever bought, I never had any dust spot issue. Actually I always perceived my lenses as excellently build. I mean, my XF35mmF1.4 still works perfectly, even though it was minutes completely under water, the day I destroyed my X-E2 in a river.

Anyway, I know things like dust spots in the lens happen, and I experienced them in the past when I used other systems. Since then, my habit is to visually check lenses, before buying them.

If small, then dust spots will have absolutely no influence on image quality.

However, when you pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars for a new lens, you do want it to be perfect out of the box, and personally I would change any new lens, even if it has the smallest dust inside it.

With that said… let’s talk about Fujifilm quality.

Fujifilm Prodcution Quality: Factory Video & Teardown

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